He glared at me as if I were personally withholding food from some poor child.
“The effects would be devastating here in the US,” he continued. “Yet they’d be far worse elsewhere, especially in third-world nations where workers already struggle. All we want is to ensure an orderly transition. To slow this thing down, and prevent an overnight meltdown of the civilized world. To mete it out carefully and allow change to occur in a gradual, controlled manner.”
I thought about this. It was a lot to process.
“I guess I’ve been a little too busy over the last couple weeks to really think this thing through,” I admitted. “But it seems to me that these things will take care of themselves. What if Henry Ford had decided not to create the assembly line because he didn’t want to put horse ranchers
